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Over 180 Companies involved
Show only specials
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Everything from wine and food
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Womens
lifestyle expo

Everything from Hunting Safety
Gear to Mismatched Shoes
With over 180 companies involved this year
the Expo has it all from beauty and fashion to
hunting gear and even mismatched shoes.
If you are a hunter or your Husband, Son,
or friends are hunters come and visit Hunter
Safety Lab at the Expo and learn about the IRIS
Hunter Protection System. In NZ most hunting
accidents are caused by experienced, responsible
hunters and two out of three victims are shot by
the person they’re hunting with.
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mistakenly target anyone wearing IRIS detectable gear. It doesn’t replace the rules of safe
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have failed. The human mind is not infallible,
so use the tools available to maximise safety,
and protect the ones you love. Smart hunters use
IRIS because they know people make mistakes.
Another new exhibitor to the expo is Mismatched who will travel up from Southland to
feature in the Expo Fashion Zone. Owner Suzan

Campbell began her shoe journey when she
found these amazing shoes overseas on a family
holiday, and it was love at first sight. Suzan says
“I knew straight away that they had to come to
NZ. They were just so unique and visually striking that when I wore them complete strangers
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coming up to me asking where I got my shoes
so oft en that my husband began to just walk
away and roll his eyes. Fast forward to now and
with the help of family and friends I have set
up Mismatched and have made hundreds of NZ
woman happy with these unique shoes we love
to sell.” Visit the Mismatched site at the Expo
for some funky new shoes.
Women’s Lifestyle Expo. Saturday 8nd &
Sunday 9rd August at the TSB Arena, Queens
Wharf.
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A touch
of colour
Art Inspiration Workshop
at Roseneath School
By Sam Duff

There was a splash of colour, a bunch of
fun and a whole load of art knowledge being
shared when a group of local artists visited
Roseneath School last week.

Artists Anna Stitchbury, Stephanie Woodman, Joe McMenamin, Michael McCormack, Ian Hamlin and Owen Smith took
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They each took on a classroom of students for a few
hours and talked about their
love of art, before teaching the
youngsters a thing or two about
the subject.
Cook Strait News sat in on
a question and answer session
between Island Bay local Ian
Hamlin and a class of nine and
ten year olds.
He was quizzed about everything from why he chooses to
create big paintings and where
he gets his inspiration from to
the studio he works in and how
much he sells his paintings for.
Ian shared a few tips with the
students so they could become
better little artists, including
for them to hold their brushes
lightly.
Before long Ian had sent the
class outside to get inspiration
for their own paintings which
he helped them work on.
Ian says he enjoyed spending
time at Roseneath School.
“It’s always cool to share
what you know,” he says. “Kids
are great and it’s a great time
to inspire them to get into art.”
Parent Tess Ostapowicz or-

ganised the day and says it
is important for children to
explore their artist side.
“Children express themselves in many different
ways,” she says. “This age
children (nine and ten year
olds) can’t express themselves
very well with their words so

this is just a different way of
them doing it.”
Having artists visit from the
local Wellington art scene,
who regularly paint things
such as the harbour and the
south coast, captures the students imaginations, Tess says.
She says this was the first

year Roseneath School had
held an Art Inspiration Workshop and they may hold it
again next year.
“It’s worth it,” Tess says.
“We have some amazing
artists here and I want them
to see that they can do it as a
career.”

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The children zoomed around the
hall on everything with wheels
and carried their own mini driver’s licenses with them.
Parents and caregivers made
gold coin donations which were
given to the Child Cancer Foundation.
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the Child Cancer Foundation or
to make a donation, go to www.
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Local youngsters jumped onto
their bikes, trikes, scooters and
skateboards last week to raise
cash for the Child Cancer Foundation.
As part of the One Day for Child
Cancer 2015 campaign PORSE
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a morning of activities for its
children, families and educators
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Thursday August 6, 2015

Fun to be had at Jamboree
By Amanda Carrington

A Girl Guiding jamboree is a
fun, exciting and great way to
meet new people, according to
two Island Bay Girl Guides.
Lucia Rutene, 10, and Sophia
Barclay, 11, are set to attend
the nationwide camp based in
Christchurch in January along
with around 2500 girls from
throughout the world.
Jamboree is a week-long camp
held every four years that inspires nine to 13-year-olds to get
involved in a range of indoor and
outdoor activities.
Lucia is looking forward to the
fun experience of jamboree and
staying in a big camp.
“You get to go away on holiday
and stay in a camp and get to do
things you don’t do in everyday
life,” she says.
Lucia likes to be occupied and
is very familiar with Christchurch.
Sophia is excited to socialise
with other girls and is looking
forward to doing a wide range
of activities.
“I think there will be lots of
fun activities and it will be really
good to meet girls from
other districts in New Zealand,”
she says.
During the jamboree, every

Girl Guide will be sleeping in
tents which Sophia says will be
hard to find your way back to in
the dark.
Also attending jamboree are
leaders from across the country.
Island Bay Guide Leader
Michaela Coleman says it will
be her first jamboree and a fun
experience for girls to meet other
girls from New Zealand and
around the world.
“It’s jam packed on activities
and provides them with new
challenges of team work and it’s
lots of fun,” she says.
Michaela has been a leader for
four years and has been working
with the Island Bay district to
fundraise for jamboree.
The district is selling tickets
to Little Women, the play based
on the novel by Louisa May
Alcott being put on by Repertory
Theatre.
The money raised by fundraising will go towards helping the
six girls from Island Bay get to
jamboree.
If you would like to help these
girls get to jamboree you can purchase tickets to a performance of
Little Women on Tuesday August
18 at the Gryphon Theatre.
 You can register for tickets
at islandbayguides.eventbrite.
co.nz.

inbrief news
Going wild
Buster the yellow-eyed penguin is ready
to bust back into the wild after being
nursed back to full health at The Nest Te
Kohanga, Wellington Zoo.
The endangered bird was brought to The
Nest after suffering a bite to the foot, which
caused severe bone and tissue damage
leaving him with a limp and unable to walk.
After a strong course of antibiotics and a
toe amputation, Buster started to recover.
He was swimming in a salt-water pool
within a number of weeks.
He will be returned to a beach near
Penguin Place, a rehabilitation facility on
the Otago Peninsula.
His progress will be monitored before
deciding on where he will be released to
in the wild.

New youth group

A new group for youngsters between
the ages of 10 and 13 has been launched
at Island Bay Presbyterian Church.
At their first meeting last week they
made snacks, played cards and hung out
at Shorland Park.
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Sustainable
business
Businesses, the community, entrepreneurs and Council have come
together to help sustainable business
refine, connect, and launch their ideas
for smarter energy in Wellington.
The Smart Energy Challenge is a
Wellington-wide collaboration that is
taking place in the city for the second
year.
Wellington City Council says it is a
new to tackle climate change by joining forces with our community and
empowering Wellingtonians to create
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Wellington’s only arts centre is opening its doors this
weekend to celebrate its 10th
birthday.
Toi Põneke is the office for
hundreds of the city’s creative
artists and businesses including directors, audio producers,
writers and dancers.
It is also the office for Island
Bay residents Vaune Mason and
Annie Collins, jewellery designers at Workspace Studios.
Vaune and Annie opened

the studio in 2006 after they
met during their study towards
a Visual Arts Diploma at
Whitireia.
When Vaune and Annie are
at Workspace Studios, they
run workshops for jewellery
making.
This weekend they will be
doing jewellery design demonstrations, metal casting, role
printing, metal forming and
patterning.
“It’s quite a long, complicated
process making jewellery so it’s
not ideal. But they [the public]

are welcome to come in and
check out what we do,” Vaune
says.
Workspace studios provide
space to the community by
renting benches to other artists,
jewellers and students during
the day.
Vaune says by providing
space to the community, everyone has been supportive of
what they do.
“The jewellery community is
quite small and the community
feed into each other. There’s
something for everyone,” she

says.
Toi Põneke manager Paora
Allen says more than 300 artists
have exhibited at Toi Põneke
Gallery.
She describes the building
from the inside like a “Tardis”a building or container that is
larger inside than it appears to
be from outside.
Toi Põneke holds its open
day on August 8 at 61-69 Abel
Smith Street from 10am.
Workspace studios will be
open from 10am to 3pm on
Saturday.

Excited to make WOW finals
By Sam Duff

As a child Sharon Johnstone
says she would design and make
outfits for all of her dolls.
Next month Sharon, a Newtown resident, will watch from
the audience as one of her
creations hits the stage for
Wellington’s annual World Of
WearableArt show.
Despite having a background
in fashion and design, she says
she was surprised to discover
her WOW entry had made it
into the show.
“I seriously didn’t think I
would get in,” says Sharon, who
began making the outfit for last
year’s show until she decided to
wait a year so she could make
it better.
“I am very excited. We did a
photo shoot and I saw it (the
outfit) all together and I was
very proud and overwhelmed.”
Since the age of eight Sharon
says she has wanted to work
in the design and fashion industries.
At the age of 18 she moved to
Wellington and began studying
at Wellington Polytechnic, now
Massey University.
After a stint working for a
company doing computer aided
design she accepted a job with

DESIGNER: Newtown resident Sharon
Johnstone is a World Of WearableArt finalist for 2015. PHOTO: Sam Duff

the Bowerman School of Design in Newtown and has been
their more or less ever since.
Sharon started-off teaching
fashion but says these days she
teaches job skills to job seekers
at the Bowerman School.
While Sharon is not allowed
to reveal many details about her
design she is prepared to give

away one clue.
She says the entire outfit is
made from second hand bicycle
tyre tubes that were given to
her free of charge by Burkes
Cycles.
Asked how many hours she
has put into making her creation, Sharon says she has lost
count but had very sore fingers

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YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: For her 80th birthday an Island Bay nun was given the ride of her life on Saturday.

Island Bay’s
own ‘Flying Nun’

By Jack Fletcher

It started as a joke but before she
knew it, Sister Cecilia, celebrating
her 80th birthday, was flying down
The Parade in Island Bay on the
back of her neighbour’s Harley
Davidson motorbike.
“Oh it was lovely! I was nervous
before I got on, but once we got
going it was great,” Sr Cecilia says.
A Sister of Compassion, Sr Cecilia celebrated her birthday on
Saturday with a party at her Island
Bay house, where around 40 friends
and family had gathered.
While everyone was gathered for
the celebrations, the true highlight
of the day came when Sr Cecilia
was kitted out all in leather and
climbed onto the back of the mo-

torbike.
“Everyone was really excited
about it,” she says.
“We went for a ride around Island
Bay and up Derwent Street.”
“I’m not sure exactly how fast we
were going, but I thought we were
going pretty fast!”
She and several other Sisters
moved onto The Parade more than
two years ago, while work is being
done on Home of Compassion to
build new accommodation units.
Sr Cecilia’s neighbour Tony
Maresca says he warmed to the
“three beautiful nuns” straight
away.
“They moved in next door to us a
couple of years ago and we became
good friends and good neighbours.
“They are really lovely people,”

he says.
Tony says he joked with Sr Cecilia
when she first moved in, saying she
should come for a ride on his Harley
Davidson.
“I said to her, ‘when you get to
80 I’m going to take you on the
motorbike’, and she said ‘Yeah
alright!’”
When the day finally came, Tony
says he thought she was going to
back out, but she was all for it.
He says he gave her some instruction, saying if she held on tight it
would be “good as gold!”
“I’m really pleased she did it
because it really made her day.”
“The best part was when I brought
her back everybody was clapping
and cheering, and there was the
most beautiful look on her face.”

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Transformation
A pair of Island Bay residents are busy transforming
the old Island Bay fish and
chip shop on the corner
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Restaurateur Ollie Edwards and fireman and local
identity Greg McPhee are
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renaming it ‘Salt and Batter.’
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By Sam Whittle

A love affair with Italian gelato
while on holiday inspired Nathan
Meyer to bring the sweet sensation
to the streets of Wellington.
Several years later and the Newtown resident is being nationally
recognised for his tasty treats.
Carello Del Gelato is one of the
ten artisan producers from the
Wellington region to make the
finals of Visa Wellington On a
Plate’s MiNDFOOD Producer
Awards for established small businesses.
Festival Director Sarah Miekle
says the award is a way to highlight
Wellington’s best and greatest
small businesses.
“Carello Del Gelato is a fantastic
business and is constantly innovating their product,” she says. “And
of course they have amazing ice
cream sandwiches.”
Nathan started Carello Del Gelato when he returned from a
holiday in Italy.
He based himself in Newtown
and began gathering the best local
and Italian ingredients to concoct
his creations.
Nathan sold the handmade gelato
from a ‘carello’ or cart on the street
and at festivals.
More than ten years on, the brand
is now distributed by stockists
throughout New Zealand and
adorns the menu of Wellington
restaurants such as Logan Brown,
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Nathan says he is excited to be
a finalist, and to be a part of Wellington On a Plate.
“It’s a great event that we love
to be involved in. It’s shouting
out about Wellington and all the

GELATO GOODNESS:
A small cart was how Nathan
Meyer started off distributing
Carello Del Gelato.

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This is the third year the brand
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He says the brand’s success is due
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Going electric on two wheels
Wellingtonians can now take
to an electric bike for a tour of
the city following the launch of
Switched on Bikes last week.
Switched on Bikes is a result of
the Smart Energy Challenge, a
Wellington City Council initiative
to support clean energy ideas in
the city.
Located at the Sustainability
Trust on Tory Street, Switched
on Bikes was started by Ryan
O’Connell and Sofia Robinson.
Ryan says the pair took to crowd
funding website PledgeMe to
finance the new business venture.
The first tour was held last
weekend and took in the Miramar
Peninsula, the Leonie Gill Pathway and Mount Victoria.
Electric bikes are also available
for hire, Ryan says.
Speaking at the Switched on
Bikes Launch last week, Mayor
Celia Wade-Brown said electric
bikes are a good transport option
for Wellingtonians.
 For more information about
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0800 386 877.

PEDAL READY: Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and councillor David Lee with
Sofia Robinson and Ryan O’Connell from Switched on Bikes.

Thursday August 6, 2015

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Out & About: Sing for your life
Each week in Island Bay a
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On Tuesday morning Cook
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readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.
Q: Do you like New Zealand’s national anthem? Do you think it needs to change?

Sherry Hughs,
Miramar
“The song needs to
be faster, to make it
sound brighter. But I
like the words, they’re
meaningful.”

Baxter Ennis,
Kilbirnie

Franz Tanael,
Kilbirnie

Adinenne Sisson,
Hataitai

Jocelyn Wilson,
Island Bay

Claudia Mason,
Miramar

“It’s fine, there is no
change needed.”

“Yes I like it, I sang it a lot
at college and am proud
to sing it.”

“I like the national anthem
and know it very well,
therefore I don’t think it
needs changing.”

“Love it, I don’t want
it changed because it
stands for the nation and
embraces all the other
nations.”

“Prefer it the way it is,
would be a waste of
money changing it.”

LETTERS to the editor
Get Council priorities straight

Let us all be proud of the country we live in

Dear Ed, I am in total
support of Margaret Davis
(CSN, July 23) regarding the
priority of Council spending.
Their primary role is to
“ensure” that the basic utilities are maintained first and
foremost.
You only have to visit Island
Bay and look at the seawall
that after two years still remains unfixed to wonder just
what this Council is up to!
That in its self is a disgrace.
The on-going flooding in

Dear Ed, I am so surprised to hear Rachel KielTaylor (CSN, July 30) talk
so negatively about New
Zealand.
I find it so funny that
many people want to immigrate here for the lifestyle
when supposedly Britain,
Europe and America seem
to be so much ‘greener’ in
their approach to living!
Having lived overseas for
many years I could not wait
to bring my family back

Kilbirnie is yet another disgrace.
The on-going obsession
with cycle lanes is yet another
disgrace.
I won’t mention the “blue
tsunami lines” that’s just too
embarrassing.
For the Mayor and the
Councillors to agree to the
latest rates hike shows a
complete disrespect for the
intelligence of the Wellington ratepayers.
Jim Smythe, Vogeltown

Those in glass houses…
Gidday guys, I loved your
THUMBS DOWN to Dom
Harvey for ‘publicly shaming’ some wannabe celeb.
A little question, aren’t
y’all just as guilty of ‘public
shaming’?

Quite curious to hear
how you defend your glass
house.
Otherwise this week’s
Cook Strait News is up to
your usual standard.
Bo

Cycleway will help not so
confident cyclists
Dear Ed, after going to
a public meeting or two,
reading some documents a
year or two ago (does seem
like ages) and talking to
people I made a submission
re the cycleway starting at
Island Bay.
My submission was mostly
in favour with a few queries
about some bus stops, etc.
The cycleway is a start

(and has to start somewhere)
and it will help the not so
confident cyclists like me
and all the school kids use
their bikes more safely and
maybe more often. We can
then take our place with
other modern cities.
I can’t wait.
Shirley Hampton,
Island Bay

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed.
Guidelines are that they should be no longer than
150 words. They must be signed and a street address
provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is
provided for publication.
The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication.
Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email
them to samduff@wsn.co.nz. Please note that your name
and street address must also be provided in e mails.

here to green grass, single
dwelling houses with land,
wide roads and short drives
to get to the coast or the
country.
Not to mention the temperate weather with clear
blue skies!
All this whinging about
how terrible New Zealand
is just getting too much.
We should celebrate what
we have here in New Zealand – not what we don’t
have!

You will never get me
going back to high density
apartment living, being
crammed on public transport, travelling for hours to
get to any kind of decent
outdoors and grey skies because of general pollution!
We have a very special
country here – let’s stop
imposing other countries
living standards/solutions
and be proud of the country
we live in!
Tom Wright, Kelburn

ARRIVALS GATE Reader Tom
Wright from Kelburn says after
living overseas he could not
wait to return to New Zealand.

Cities where lots of people walk and cycle are attractive cities
Dear Ed, I have cycled
in Wellington and the
Hutt Valley for 35 years
and have lamented the
lack of safe cycling infrastructure.
Most people choose not
to cycle because it feels
too dangerous.
It is fantastic that Wellington City councillors
have voted to proceed
with the Island Bay
Cycleway, the start of

a network of protected
cycleways in Wellington.
I have also spent time
cycling in The Netherlands, and renewed that
experience in June.
The contrast is stark.
There, everyone seems
to cycle.
In cities of similar size to
Wellington you see children of all ages cycling
to school, to the pool, a
whole classroom out with

a teacher or two; parents
with one or two small kids
on bike seats; grandparents cycling beside their
grandchildren; people of
all ages just going about
their business, on a bike.
It feels natural to just hop
on a bike to go anywhere!
All this is possible
mainly because in the
1970s the Dutch decided
to turn away from the
car-centric policies that in

the post-war boom were
killing its cities and its
citizens, and to embrace
more inclusive transport
policies - leading them
to invest in safe cycling
infrastructure.
Cities where lots of people walk and cycle are
attractive cities to live in.
Let’s make Wellington
one of those cities!
Andrew Carman,
Brooklyn

Worried about being euthanised in her fifties
Dear Ed, Peter Bellam
(CSN, July 30) it is great
to see that you have been
so gullible having been
sucked into this propaganda about how fat people are getting, how car
dominated New Zealand
is and how scary it is to
step out your front door.
I think you’ll find that the
world is just not that black
and white – people don’t
just drive cars because
they are anti-walking and
anti-cycling!

Just go ask a few mothers
around how easy it is to
make sure the kids get to
school as well as get themselves to work on time, to
get the food shopping for
the week, get everyone to
their sports events etc.
Also take a minute to ask
a variety of elderly people
what impact older age has
on their mobility!
I also suggest that you
travel the world and then
you will see that little old
New Zealand is not that

car obsessed and remains
pretty green and clean in
comparison to other parts
of the world.
In my opinion I think that
you are being undemocratic and not community
spirited by assuming that
because people are not
wanting speed bumps in
a road that is too narrow
to go fast and have grave
doubts about the safety of
the proposed cycleway are
anti-walking and biking.
I would also say that you

are being ageist – don’t
forget that older people
were once children, more
than likely rode bikes, and
probably were parents of
small children and may
even now be grandparents
– so it is unwise to assume
that they don’t know the
issues for all!
It is people like you, with
your ageist attitude, that
make me paranoid we
will all be euthanised by
our fifties!
Fiona Gilbert, Newtown

Thursday August 6, 2015

Waiting list for council housing
Dear Ed, I have been
confirmed on the Wellington City Council
rental housing waiting
list since March.
But I have not heard
from them since then and
now they have eliminated
my application without
ever contacting me.
My current rental is due
to increase again – I can
no longer afford to stay
here so my affordable
housing need is becoming urgent.
As a 62 year old beneficiary I am not entitled
to any WINZ accommodation allowance and
I live on a fixed budget
- so I require the Affordable Subsidy Rental in a
smoke-free environment
due to my health condition and being allergic to
passive smoke.
I have previously been
on the WCC housing
waiting lists for many
years, but they could
never provide me with
any suitable rental accommodation.

Now that WCC has
spent millions of taxpayer dollars on improving its city rental housing
stock - surely WCC can
now provide me with
quality smoke-free Affordable Subsidy Rental
at $154 per week for a
few years until I get my
pension?
There is a clear difference between WCC
housing - in providing
workers with market
rental accommodation
and older beneficiary
citizen’s needing affordable rental.
WCC housing exclaims
great Affordable Subsidy Rental, but in reality
WCC housing does not
fulfil any of its social
housing obligations.
Maybe t he me d ia
should investigate WCC
tenancy occupations?
Rather than concentrate
on the Mayor’s jiggerypokery cycle lanes in
Island Bay?
Martin Beck,
Mornington

Archaic and sexist comments
Dear Ed, finally I have decided to write as yet another
bigoted and one eyed letter
from H Westfold is again
printed in your paper.
I’m not sure what’s more
annoying, his archaic and
sexist comments or the fact
you continuously print them.
Does nobody else write
to you?
I think I would prefer to
read another local article or
even an advertisement.
He even made your 5 minute profile? Seriously, was
there nobody else?
H Westfold - I do not drive
an SUV, however I do walk
my daughter to school every
day. This is due to walking being our only mode of

transport.
It’s also so I can go to work
happy in the knowledge that
she is safely at school.
It is 2015. Sadly yes, there
are a lot of weirdos out there,
busy roads to cross and accidents do happen.
It’s every mother’s prerogative how many hours they
choose to work.
I choose to work 28 hours
to provide a nice home, cool
clothes and holidays for my
daughter and I.
This is so I am not reliant
on a man or the government.
Stop being so quick to judge
and consider that everyone
has their own reasons and
story to tell.
Tracey Rigby

LETTERS to the editor
Cyclists cause of their own accidents
Dear Ed, I completely
disagree with Andrew Stone’s
claim (CSN, July 30) claiming that Council have not neglected basic infrastructure.
You need only consider the
recent flooding in Kilbirnie
(twice affected) the delays in
the seriously overdue upgrade
of the Petone to Thorndon
cycleway, the Island Bay
Seawall to name just several
of the more obvious examples of a failed maintenance
programme courtesy of the
Council.
It would seem Stone is a
member of the cycling lobby
– a group who’s fervent supporters seem to be unable to
listen to or compromise with

anyone who disagrees with
their point of view.
They are anti-community
spirited.
There’s a lot of misinformation about car and cycle
caused accidents that the
Council needs to take full
responsibility for.
Many cyclists actually are
the cause of their own accidents and no vehicle has been
involved. Check out the facts!
But, let’s not confuse the
debate with Council infrastructure negligence with
the greatly needed public cycleway debate – that just leads
to emotional obfuscation!
Eleanor Beach,
Owhiro Bay

A little premature in judgment
Dear Ed, correspondent,
H. Scobie (CSN, June 23)
may be a little premature
in their judgement regarding the recent crash at the
Clyde and Mersey St intersection and suggesting
Clyde St is unsafe and good

reason for the installation
of speed bumps.
Two of the three people
in the car that smashed
into the resident driving up
Mersey St, ran off from the
scene, as would have the
driver if he hadn’t been re-

strained by local residents
until the police arrived.
The point is that youths
joy-riding in stolen vehicles
that don’t stop at stop signs
are a disaster waiting to
happen and no amount of
speed control measures is

going to prevent this.
This awful incident
(which indeed it was)
was the result of criminal
activity that could have
happened anywhere.
W & S Hall,
Island Bay

I am so sorry ginger bearded man with sunglasses
Dear Ed, on Tuesday
morning as I was driving to
a meeting in Churton Park
from Hataitai, coming down
from Mt Vic and merging
into traffic at about 8.30am,
I almost crashed into a cyclist, and it was horrifying.
Me, a cyclist myself, not
looking enough to see one
of my compadres braving it
on this beautiful Wellington
morning around Oriental
Parade, and I almost hit
him.

Dear man with ginger
beard, sunglasses and bright
yellow vest, I am so sorry.
I'm usually quite a careful
driver, but this morning
I didn't catch sight of you
until I had freaked both of
us out.
I am so glad I managed to
stop in time, and not cause
an accident.
I hope you are ok; I am
so sorry.
I love cycling because
it is so much more active

in terms of active versus
passive.
You’ve gotta have your
wits about you and are constantly thinking about the
road, cars, people, zooming,
the best way to get from a-z.
That opening scene from
Premium Rush comes to
mind, visualising the fastest and easiest way to get
through traffic.
Driving, however, it’s so
easy to be passive.
We sit in a bubble, a car-

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shaped dome that protects
us from outside, and can
easily drive along on autopilot.
How many times have
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Does this happen when we
are cycling too?
Again, Ginger Bearded
Man with sunglasses, I am
so sorry.
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http://www.meetup.com/Shelly-BayWellington-Fitness-Fun-Body-changingMeetup/

trated movements and deep muscle
conditioning into an hour long mind body
workout to driving rhythms, ending with
an inspirational warm down /stretch.
It is a fun & challenging training class and
much more. You don’t have to be super
fit to come along, all ages, sizes and body
shapes find it inspiring.
The fitness dance classes are a different
form of exercise that ‘whispers’ exercise
and ‘shouts’ fun. The classes energise you
and leave you with the ‘after-glow’ of
exercise and a sense of mastery and confidence as well as addressing important
fitness components.
Email us at: lynnebreed@clear.net.nz
or call 04 934 3920 or 0274 416 079

Thursday August 6, 2015

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ON

Tips for staying healthy this winter
Get a flu shot – Pay a visit to
Androulla and the team today
at Kilbirnie Life Pharmacy to get
your winter flu shot. An influenza
vaccination offers 70 to 90 percent protection against infection
and can decrease the severity
and side effects if you get sick.
Use your own pens – Yucky cold
and flu germs can easily be
passed from person to person
so don’t borrow a work colleagues pen. Who knows where
it has been.

Squirt, squirt – Stock up on
hand sanitiser and squirt it into
your hands from time to time to
keep the germs at bay.
Stay fit – While it may be easier
to sit on the couch and watch
Coronation Street this winter you
will get a greater long-term benefit from getting off your bum
and hitting the gym, going for a
walk or doing some exercise in
your lounge room.
Take a daily multi - Look for one

with 100 percent of the recommended daily values of vitamins
A, B6, B12, C, and D, and the
minerals chromium, copper, folic
acid, selenium, calcium, and zinc.
Wash your hands – Seems like
a no brainer but according to
research many of us still skip
washing our hands after a visit to
the loo. Yuck, yuck. While many
of us may think we are washing
our hands we are not doing it
thoroughly enough, so get washing! With soap!

Acupuncture comes to Newtown
If you have been past Wellington Hospital
this year, you may have noticed a new clinic
has opened up across the road, the Newtown Acupuncture Centre. Our goal is to
provide acupuncture care that is as easy to
access and as cost effective as possible. We
see our service as a safe complement to our
patients’ existing health care, offering relief
from symptoms that may not otherwise be
possible.
Musculoskeletal pain treatment, including
neck, back and arthritis pain, is probably the
most common use of acupuncture. Studies have shown that acupuncture can offer
more relief from symptoms than pain killers
or physical therapy alone, particularly in
regards to low back and knee arthritis pain.
What many don’t realize is that acupuncture
can treat other types of pain too, such as
visceral pain and headaches. In some cases
acupuncture can replace the need for analgesic drugs. In other cases it can offer greater

relief than drugs alone can achieve.
Acupuncture has also been shown to offer
relief for a wide range of other conditions,
including: incontinence, hot flushes, nausea,
dry mouth, constipation, anxiety and lymphoedema.
Lymphoedema is accumulation of lymph fluid under the skin. It is a common side effect
of cancer treatment, especially lymph node
removal. Usual treatments offered range
from lymph drainage massage to wearing
compression bandages, but no commonly
accepted cure is available. A study showed
that acupuncture can significantly reduce
swelling, thereby improving flexibility and
reducing discomfort. This reflects our clinical
experience. We believe that acupuncture
could be a real game changer for people
with lymphoedema.
If you are suffering discomfort give acupuncture a try! Relief may be at hand.
PBA

Looking after your greatest asset
Located in Newtown, Working Hands is a
privately-owned clinic that specialises in
conditions of the lower arm.
Hand therapist/owner Amanda Johnson
and her Colleague, Simone Szeto have over
25 years of experience specialising in this
field so come and visit the Working Hands
team today.
All of the Working Hands therapists are
qualified physiotherapists, and recognised
as Registered Hand Therapists with both
ACC and the New Zealand Association of
Hand Therapists.
They work closely with Orthopaedic and
Plastic Surgeons, local GPs, case managers
(for both ACC and private insurers) and
other allied health professionals.
Amanda says Working Hands have clients
of all ages and will cater treatment to your
individual needs.
No referral is necessary and they are able
to process ACC forms. If required, Working

Hands can refer you for further investigations or specialist care.
If you are eligible for ACC, your consultation
and splinting costs will be covered.
“We like to empower people with the
knowledge of what’s happening with their
hands and the best way to manage them,”
Amanda says. “We look at their whole holistic wellbeing so we can strive to get them
back to where they were.”
Your initial session will typically involve
taking a comprehensive history of your
symptoms and making a detailed assessment. This allows Working Hands to create
a tailored treatment plan.
Amanda says the most common issues
seen at Working Hands include fractures
strains and sprains, dislocations, tendon
repairs, nerve repairs, amputations, arthritis
and more. PBA
Visit Working Hands at 100 Riddiford
Street, Newtown today.

Working Hands is
a privately-owned
clinic that specialises
in conditions of the
lower arm.
Our ultimate goal is to help
you return back to your
previous level of function.

Shop 7, Lychgate Centre, 100 Riddiford Street, Newtown

04 939 HAND (04 939 4263)
F: 04 939 4262 | M: 027 883 8789

14 Thursday August 6, 2015
Have you got an anonymous THUMBS UP or THUMBS DOWN
to share? email to news@wsn.co.nz or Text to 022 322 4811

From yodelling cats and surfing dogs to collapsing buildings and other outrageously excitable shenanigans –
this is where readers share what is going UP and DOWN in the Eastern and Southern suburbs.
THUMBS DOWN to the death of
British music icon Cilla Black. A true
legend.

THUMBS UP to the great effort put
into the Jubilee Cup final by Marist St
Pats. There’s always next year boys.

THUMBS UP to the new doggy poo
bag dispenser at Lyall Bay beach by
the car park opposite Spruce Goose.

THUMBS DOWN to the weekend
weather in Wellington. Depressing.

THUMBS DOWN to having to slow
down for road works when there
seems to be no road workers in sight
and no work being done on the road
at that time.

Cook Strait News
welcomes the public
to submit any THUMBS
UP, THUMBS DOWN
comments to
022 322 4811 or
news@wsn.co.nz.
We reserve the right
not to publish any
malicious or ill-spirited
entries. Keep it friendly
guys!

THUMBS UP to the TPP not being
signed in Hawaii at the weekend.
THUMBS DOWN to Dr Palmer for
killing Cecil the lion.

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She may only be 11 but a
Brooklyn-trained karate kid
recently won gold at the Karate New Zealand Nationals in
Porirua.
Zoe Ashton-Lawes, from
Wadestown Primary School,
says she was ecstatic to bring
home gold in the kata category.
“I was pretty excited,” she
says. “I told all my friends, they
were very excited for me.”

Zoe says she was proud of
how well she had done as she
did not expect to do so well.
“It was quite a surprise,” says
Zoe, who is not taking anything
for chance for next year’s Karate New Zealand Nationals.
This was the second year in a
row Zoe attended the competition, in 2014 she picked-up a
bronze for kata.
Zoe trains at Brooklyn Rembuden under sensei Patricia
Reilly.
In December last year Zoe
went to the Manawatu Championships where about 120
competitors went head to head.
Zoe took out a first in her kata
round and went on to pick-up
a gold medal in the kumite,
fighting.

Also in December she took
part in the Kyoso Cup in Wainuiomata where she was in the
9 to 11 year old category and
came second in kata and third
in kumite.
Asked what she enjoys about
karate, Zoe says it is fun and she
likes making friends when she
goes to competitions.
She says she plans on going
as far as possible in the sport.
“I would like to become a
black belt one day,” says Zoe,
who wants to be a space scientist when she leaves school.
 For more information about
Brooklyn Rembuden contact
Patricia on 0272976049 or go
to www.brooklynrembuden.
co.nz

Guard fundraiser
A car is being auctioned to keep
life guards, such as those at Lyall
Bay and Oriental Bay, can stay on
patrol.
Surf Life Saving New Zealand is
auctioning a brand new vehicle,
donated by Thrifty Car Rental,
valued at more than $80,000.

State Insurance is also offering
one year’s free car insurance to
the winner of the auction and
BP is providing a gift card valued
at $260.
The auction closes on August 12
at 8pm and can be found by going
to trade.me/Thrifty.

Lanes open
The opening of a cycle lane on
Victoria Street brings Wellington
one step closer to the completion
of its planned $90 million cycle
network.
The new cycle lane is part of a
Wellington City Council transformation of Victoria Street.
Beginning in Dixon Street, the

cycleway, which includes a short
kerbside section, connects with
the shared cycle and walking path
in Karo Drive and through Pukeahu
National War Memorial Park.
Wellington Mayor Celia WadeBrown says the Council is committed to improving cycling infrastructure.

Marist defeated in cup final
GAME FACES: Bocce players Ann Lilley and Trevor Hetherington have recently competed in the Special
Olympics World Games 2015 in Los Angeles. PHOTO: Sam Duff

Bocce success
in Los Angeles
A pair of Miramar bocce
players has picked-up several
medals at the Special Olympics World Games in Los
Angeles.
Player Trevor Hetherington
and unified partner Ann Lilley will be returning to the
country having been part
of the bronze-winning New
Zealand bocce team.
The team of four is made
up of Trevor, Ann and two

players from the Manawatu.
Ann and Trevor, who both
play bocce at the Mornington
Golf Club, did not pick-up
medals in the pair’s competition, however the Manawatu
players won silver.
Trevor won a bronze in the
men’s single event.
Bocce head coach Lyn Ryan
says Trevor ‘played out of his
skin’.
New Zealand sent 36 athletes

to the games, four of which
are competing in bocce. The
other two bocce players are
from the Manawatu.
The Special Olympics were
founded in 1968 and first held
at Soldier Field in Chicago
where 1500 athletes competed.
This year more than 7,000
athletes and 3,000 coaches
from 177 countries competed
in Los Angeles.

Marist St Pats were defeated by
Old Boys University in the final of
the Jubilee Cup at Porirua Park on
Saturday.
After 80 minutes on the field and a
strong comeback from the local side
the final score was 30-27.
The real action of the game when

there was just 20 minutes to go and
a try by OBU put the score at 25-6.
Despite the wet conditions MSP
fought their way back in the final
quarter for a respectable loss.
The two sides have not met in a
Jubilee Cup final since 2002 when
MSP triumphed over OBU.

TAKEN DOWN: Old Boys University defeated Marist St Pats in the Jubilee
Cup final on Saturday. PHOTO: Holden Bros. Media

16 Thursday August 6, 2015

Capturing everyday
life at Kilmarnock
Heights Home
Don’t be surprised if you see the residents of Enliven’s Kilmarnock Heights
Home adorning the pages of the newspaper or perhaps even a glossy magazine.
Professional photographer Mike Heydon, from Jet Productions, was in Berhampore to take photos of residents, staff
and volunteers at the rest home recently.
“I think everyone had a great time – even
those who were a little camera shy at first,”
says External Relations Manager Alisha
Kennedy.
The photos will be used in brochures,
flyers, advertisements and websites for
Enliven, including Kilmarnock Heights
Home.
“It’s important to Enliven that we capture real moments, with real people who
really love living at Kilmarnock Heights,”
says Alisha.
“We asked the residents in advance if
they wanted to be involved and many
of them jumped at the opportunity – it’s
something a little bit different and a little
bit spontaneous, plus they really wanted
to help out.”
On the day of the photo shoot the residents, staff and volunteers carried on with
their usual activities and routines while
the photographer snapped away.
“We want the advertising to reflect
everyday life at Kilmarnock Heights
Home, so everyone is encouraged to carry
on with their day while the photographer
captures it.”

She explains that getting residents
involved in the photo shoot fits nicely
with Enliven’s philosophy of care, called
the Eden Alternative.
The Eden principles touch on ideas such
as variety and spontaneity, companionship, continuing hobbies and meaningful
activity.
“The key thing about Eden is that it’s
elder-directed, and is all about ensuring
older people have companionship and
meaning in their lives.”
Enliven's Kilmarnock Heights Home, located at 20 Morton Street in Berhampore,
provides rest home and respite care, as
well as a popular day guest programme.
PBA
 For more information about Kilmarnock Heights Home, call 04 380 2034,
email kilmarnockheights@psc.org.nz or
visit www.enlivencentral.org.nz.

Kilmarnock Heights Home photoshoot

A life worth living at

Kilmarnock Heights Home
Kilmarnock Heights Home is vibrant, welcoming and inviting from
the moment you walk through the door. Here, you’ll be supported
to maintain your independence and continue with your hobbies,
interests and passions.
A highlight for many residents is the social life - as well as enjoying the
company of others at a similar stage of life, residents get involved in
organising daily happenings and special events.
At Kilmarnock Heights Home we can offer rest home care and short
term respite, as well as a day guest programme for people living in the
community.
Call Kilmarnock Heights Home on (04) 380 2034 to find out more.

A lot of teenagers regret the first time they
have sex. True or false?
That will be just one of the talking points
when an early intervention life skills
programme kicks-off at a local college this
month.
Your Choice Wellington coordinator
Andrea Wheatley says Your Choice is a
nation-wide education programme that gives
young people the knowledge they need to
make informed decisions about their sexual
activities and relationships.
“Young people need to understand the
full value of themselves and their bodies,”
Andrea says.
“We want them to have healthy relationships and a lot of people don’t know how to
have healthy relationships.”
Presenters aged between 18 and 25 go into
classrooms and take the sessions, which
Andrea says are not sex education classes.
Your Choice presenter and Newtown youth

worker, Chris Silvester, says there is quite
a gap in young people’s education about
healthy relationships.
“The primary place young people learn
about healthy relationships is through their
parents and a lot of kids come from broken
families or don’t have an open dialogue with
their parents or mentors.”
One of the discussions will focus around
cultural and media pressure when it comes to
what relationships should be like, Chris says.
Your Choice, which is run by the Family
Education Network, is set to be held in a
Wellington high school for the first time in
seven years.
“Everybody in New Zealand needs to hear
the content that we have,” Andrea says
She says her goal is to visit another four
schools in the next year with the Your Choice
programme,
Andrea says Your Choice Wellington
will be holding a quiz night fundraiser
on August 21. For more information and
to buy tickets go to tinyurl.com/yrchoice.

ueen Margaret College
A World of Opportunities

Discover Year 7
Open Day

Friday 7 August
9am - 3pm
Friday 14 August
9am - 3pm

IB Diploma Seminar at the Wellington Club
Joint Info Session with Scots College

Tuesday 18 August 1 – 2pm

Register Online www.qmc.school.nz

Thursday August 6, 2015

Womens
lifestyle expo
Escape. Indulge. Explore.

This is
Wellington’s
ultimate
weekend for
women, so
don’t miss
out!

Ultimate Weekend for
Women Is Here
If you’ve been searching for
the ultimate occasion for you
and your girlfriends to get
together, then here it is.
The annual Women’s Lifestyle
Expo is back in Wellington once
more, and it is promising to be
an event you won’t forget. Do
not leave your eftpos card at
home as this year the Expo has
more sites to shop from than
ever before!
From jewellery to health products, crafts, fitness, beauty, food,
wine sampling, travel, business
products, art, cosmetics, fashion
and so much more; if they don’t
have it, it’s not worth having.
There will also be a larger
Craft Zone with over twice the
amount of local crafters exhibiting compared to last year. For
a ‘tasteful’ experience like no
other, head to the ‘Taste Zone’
where businesses from all over

New Zealand will be allowing
you the opportunity to experience, try, and buy a range of
fantastic products. From artisan
bread to Fruit Pastes, beer and
wine to organic coconut products you can tantalise your taste
buds with a tasty treat from the
Expo Taste Zone.
This is Wellington’s ultimate
weekend for women, so don’t
miss out! Renee Murray from
NZME Events, organiser of the
Expo says they are very excited
about coming back to Wellington again this year.
‘‘We expect thousands of
visitors over the two days with
women coming from all around
the region to experience the
show,’’ she says.
If you have never been to a
Women’s Expo, you are in for
a treat, but you do need a few
hours up your sleeve!

From sampling gourmet food,
to trying on jewellery, watching
fashion parades and purchasing
make up, there is so much to
see and do, and you will want
to do it all!
Take time for yourself; Have
a Mother Daughter day out or
grab the girlfriends and head to
the Women’s Lifestyle Expo on
this August 8th & 9th at the TSB
Arena, Wellington.
There is so much going on and
with door sales only $10 there is
every reason to visit and none to
stay at home!

For more information, please
see www.expos.co.nz or
keep in touch with Expo
news and competitions by
liking Women’s Lifestyle
Expo on Facebook.

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With over 180 companies involved this is now There will also be a larger Craft Zone with over
one of Wellington’s largest events and a must twice the amount of local crafters exhibiting
visit for women of all ages.
compared to last year and a huge Taste Zone
There will be lots of sites to shop from at this where you can tantalise your taste buds with
year’s Expo so make sure you bring your eftpos a tasty treat and take home some of your
card along. There is a huge variety of companies favourites. This is Wellington’s ultimate weekend
involved with everything from beauty products
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Don’t miss out on your chance to see over 180 companies under one roof!
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8th & 9th August. Door Sales only $10 and under 12 free.